Help Scott Get A Job

Scott Herriot posted this message yesterday on the message boards. Hello y'all...Scott here. Last night, the 21st, CNN's "Newsnight with Aaron Brown" ran a story I sent to them about the Loneliest Road in America. During the intro, Aaron said, in essence, "We'd like to hire Scott, but the big boys say we don't have the money. But perhaps enough emails might change their mind." The email address is newsnight@cnn.com. If you ever found me remotely amusing on ZDTV/TechTV, I'd appreciate any positve feedback you could throw their way. If you found me simply annoying, please send positive feedback anyway, since, for God's sake, it's the Holiday season. Much Love, Scott. P.S. Once again, the email address is newsnight@cnn.com. Tell your friends and get them to email, too. Let's get Scott that job!

You're A Better Man Than I Am Dept.

Bulletin: We're going to have a taser on the show tonight. Yoshi has agreed to take a hit for the show. And it's not even sweeps week! Tonight on the Screen Savers, 7p Eastern, 6p Central.

Taser Shots

Before I go on, I want to point out that Yoshi volunteered for this. He really wanted to do it. He did a lot of research to assure himself it was safe, and we performed the experiment in a controlled environment with a highly trained expert from the Taser corporation. Don't try this at home - you can really hurt yourself. Tasers are not toys! Click the thumbnail for a full size picture... Taser - police model You want to shoot who??? Don't even think about it little man! I, target Point blank It's not really a brick wall This won't hurt a bit You ok man??? Afterwards Yoshi made copies of the video tape and sent it to all his friends. Wow. They're trying to talk me into doing this for sweeps in April. Um. I don't think so.

Shoe In

Have I ever told you about my shoes? It's a long story. We used to store all our wardrobe at the studios on a little mezzanine built in 1996 -- when Ziff-Davis first produced "The Site" for MSNBC. The mezzanine started as the executive suite, although it could accomodate no more than 40 (svelte) execs. More than that and it would tumble to the ground, crushing the poor producers beneath. When we rennovated the studio for ZDTV we gutted the executive offices and turned the mezzanine into an uneasy cross between storage space and dressing rooms. I had about 20 feet of wacky shirts stored up there and two well broken in pairs of Doc Martens, one brown and one black.

The TechTV "Dressing Rooms"

Those are my shirts on the right. Late last year the powers that be, hereinafter referred to as TPTB, decided to completely take over the space for storage. They told all us to take our clothes home. Now I don't know about you, but I don't have 20 feet of closet space just waiting to be filled. After a little fussing TBTB agreed to give me some space at our offices in the Townsend building (a 10 minute ride away from the studios). When moving day arrived I grabbed a few shirts and a pair of shoes so that I'd have something to wear, then everything else was boxed up and carried over to Townsend. Unfortunately, the "pair" of shoes I grabbed were both right feet, one brown one black. But I didn't notice this because I went to do Regis and then on vacation. The remaining shoes, both left feet, were accidentally left behind on the mezzanine. By the time I got back they had been donated to Goodwill. I just hope that the poor colorblind sap with two left feet who purchased my old shoes enjoys them as much as I did. Meanwhile, I'm stuck without any footwear. Which explains why I've been wearing sneakers for the past two weeks. Well I've finally found their replacements today. Introducing my new TSS shoes!

The angels want to wear my flame shoes

What you're looking at there is a pair of Tredair TBR1135, Black/Sunburst R/O Tie shoes. Size 9. They're on fire. I also got a pair of black wingtip Gripfasts but they're not as photogenic. They're really big though. They kind of look like black wingtip clown shoes. Finally, shoes that reflect my inner geek. I'll wear them on Monday.

Paul Blog

The Executive Producer of a TV show is the man in charge. He determines the direction and style of the show and manages the staff. For a long time The Screen Savers didn't even have an EP. But for the past year we've been very fortunate to have Paul Block in charge. He's a TV veteran who worked for everyone from Johnny Carson to George Hamilton. And he is one of the few people I'd trust with my show. We work very well together. While I'm totally oriented toward the geek, he's a very positive influence to making the show more accessible to everyone. Under his command we've more than quadrupled our audience. And I Paul and I both intend to take TSS to the top. And now I've convinced Paul to start his own blog! I'm hosting it here on Leoville. I expect Paul will use it to share his thinking about the show with you and to give you a chance to give him feedback. We're both really excited about the possibilites and I know you will come to like and respect Paul as much as I do. Make sure to ask him about his past - he's got some great stories. So please bookmark Paul Blog and visit regularly. I have a feeling it's going to be a really fun place to visit.